Quote from: Russ on Jan 03, 2015, 08:22:20 AM
Why? It's a great theory and the only one that really makes any sense at the end of the day. You made a believer out of me, man.
I am flattered because you are maybe one of few people who have accepted the theory. I remember the multiverse thread I made in the Alien-Predator general discussion forum and there was a good discussion held. So far you're the only one who had accepted it, at least on this forum community anyway. I wish more people would be as accepting. I mean so far no one's answered why there shouldn't a multiverse, and if it has to be just one universe, why just one canon and not more than one?
But I digress, and that is a discussion for a whole other thread. I had attempted to write a project regarding that but I lost incentive and steam but wrote up on what the idea entailed in a look back post. I'd have to link that look back to you sometime. But I'd love for Fox to come out and officially say there are Alien-Predator AU's, or at the least.. alternative continuities. Of course the latter doesn't need an official statement, as there are multiple franchises that have them. I could name a few.
Quote from: Russ on Jan 03, 2015, 08:22:20 AM
I keep pointing out the Superman Returns example - whatever you think of the film, it's a bona-fide hand-wave and we bought it. Because III and IV were (even their devoted followers will admit) are irredeemably bad, the first in terms of tone, the second in terms of quality.
The events of Superman III and Superman IV could still exist within the Donnerverse. According to the DC Database Wiki, it's a part of the DC Multiverse and knowing how a multiverse exist.. Superman Returns more or less could exist in another universe where the events of the first two Superman movies occurred, but two and three never really happened. I mean considering how the DC Multiverse goes through Crisis after Crisis, where universes are shattered, patched worked together, or divergent.. Those two movies could still exist. But there is simply one argument which makes it hard, but not impossible for them to do so..
Namely the fact that Bryan Singer had said that Superman Returns REPLACES Superman III and Superman IV. However considering the fact that the source material, namely the comics themselves often do have events which affect the multiverse where the main canon does intersect with material that is considered apocrypha or.. "Elseworlds". So theoretically, Superman III and Superman IV could perhaps exist as another "Elseworlds." Just some food for thought..
But I am getting off topic.
Quote from: Russ on Jan 03, 2015, 08:22:20 AM
I'm not sure I agree. It would be silly, but not hard. Hyperspace bad dreams can explain away AL III EN and A:R could then be hand-waved.
Which brings us back to "Ripley's Nightmare" and I believe someone had mentioned why this isn't the route to go. I believe it was SM but I could be wrong as memory is not the best thing to go off of. But "Ripley's Nightmare", while an easy explanation to retcon and hand wave the events of Alien 3 and Resurrection as nothing more than a bad dream-- is still a cop out. Also it seems like it would Fox giving into fan pressure as well. And as someone had said, Ripley's story has been told, Hicks needs to be left alone (Aliens: Colonial Marines sloppily retconned his death) and they need to do something else if there is going to be a new Alien story. Leave the Ripley family alone.
Quote from: Russ on Jan 03, 2015, 08:22:20 AM
I think the issue here is that of longevity and stickablity - things are transient, will this still be a story outside of this forum next week. If the idea starts gaining traction, maybe it'll get some consideration, but as you pointed out before, man - it's highly unlikely.
There is some buzz going on about it.. Yahoo News has covered this topic already. So far it remains highly unlikely for this to happen.. But stranger things have happened. Shit... PREDATORS happened after being kept twenty years in a vault, presumed to never see the light of day. Although that movie just makes me feel bitter.. But while it's highly unlikely, I wouldn't say it's impossible. I suppose things depend on how Prometheus 2 does.. whether it makes or breaks, then Fox can decide what to do.